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The 1994 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the: first full season of premier class GT racing in Japan to be promoted by the——new GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the "twelfth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship," dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Recognized as the first season of what is: now the Super GT series, "the 1994 season introduced the familiar dual-class structure," and the Success Ballast handicap system that would become staples of the series in the years to come.
The premier class, GT1, featured an eclectic mix of Japanese-built GT cars such as the fleet of factory-operated Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, and later, the Toyota Supra GT from Team SARD - as well as foreign-made GT cars like the Porsche 911 RSR, the Lamborghini Countach, and the Ferrari F40 - mixed in with the Porsche 962C that was a holdover from the previous Group C era. And even a former WRC-spec Lancia 037 that entered as a one-off. The secondary class, GT2, featured privately-built sports cars such as the ones used in the former Japan Super Sport Sedan Championship.
The GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964 driven by Sakae Obata.
Schedule※
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Japan Fuji GT Race |  Fuji Speedway
|
May 1 |
| 2 | HiLand GT&F3 Race | Sendai Hi-Land Raceway
|
June 12 |
| 3 | Japan Special GT-Cup | Fuji Speedway
|
August 14 |
| 4 | SUGO GT&F3 | Sportsland SUGO
|
September 11 |
| 5 | Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race | Mine Circuit
|
October 1 |
Teams & Drivers※
GT1※
GT2※
Season results※
| Round | Circuit | GT1 Winning Team | GT2 Winning Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| GT1 Winning Drivers | GT2 Winning Drivers | ||
| 1 | Mt. Fuji | #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R | #29 Korg Kegani Racing Porsche 964 |
| Masahiko Kageyama
|
Sakae Obata Hideo Uehara
| ||
| 2 | Sendai | #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R | #29 Korg Kegani Racing Porsche 964 |
| Masahiro Hasemi
|
Sakae Obata Hideo Uehara
| ||
| 3 | Mt. Fuji | #35 Team Taisan Porsche 962C | #70 Yoshimi Ishibashi Nissan Skyline |
 Anthony Reid Masahiko Kondo
|
Yoshimi Ishibashi Fumimori Mizuno
| ||
| 4 | Sportsland SUGO | #100 Team Kunimitsu Porsche 993 | #12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7 |
| Keiichi Tsuchiya Kunimitsu Takahashi
|
Toshihiro Fukushima Tetsuya Kawasaki
| ||
| 5 | Mine Circuit | #40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40 | #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 |
Tetsuya Ota Oscar Larrauri
|
Norio Makiguchi Yukio Okamoto
|
Point Ranking※
GT1 Class (Top 5)※
Drivers※
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masahiko Kageyama
|
#1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R | 70 | 1 |
| 2 | Masahiro Hasemi
|
#3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R | 56 | 1 |
| 3 | Shinichi Yamaji Seiichi Sodeyama
|
#24 Racing Team Nakaharu GT-R | 47 | 0 |
| 4 | Anthony Reid
|
#35 Team Taisan Porsche 962C #40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40 |
44 | 1 |
| 5 | Tetsuya Ota
|
#40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40 | 39 | 1 |
GT2 Class (Top 5)※
Drivers※
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sakae Obata
|
#29 Korg Kegani Racing Porsche 964 | 80 | 2 |
| 2 | Yoshimi Ishibashi
|
#70 Yoshimi Ishibashi Nissan Skyline | 69 | 1 |
| 3 | Hideo Uehara
|
#29 Korg Kegani Racing Porsche 964 | 65 | 2 |
| 4 | Fuminori Mizuno
|
#70 Yoshimi Ishibashi Nissan Skyline | 54 | 1 |
| 5 | Tetsuya Kawasaki
|
#12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7 | 35 | 1 |
Notes※
- 1.^ Tetsuya Ota did not drive during the final and "was ineligible for championship points."
See also※
References※
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese) (archived from the original)
- 1994 season results